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We calculate the ratios $E2/M1$ and $C2/M1$ of the multipole amplitudes for electroproduction of the $\Delta$(1232) in the range of photon virtuality $0<-K^2<1$~GeV$^2$ in a chiral chromodielectric model and a linear $\sigma$-model. We find…
The multipole amplitudes for the N - Delta electromagnetic transition are computed in the framework of the linear sigma model and the chiral chromodielectric model for small and moderate photon virtualities. The models include quark and…
A partial wave analysis of pion photoproduction has been obtained in the framework of fixed-t dispersion relations valid from threshold up to 500 MeV. In the resonance region we have precisely determined the electromagnetic properties of…
The resonant electric quadrupole amplitude in the transition $\gamma N\leftrightarrow\Delta(1232)$ is of great interest for the understanding of baryon structure. Various dynamical models have been developed to extract it from the…
We evaluate the two-photon exchange contribution to the $e N \to e \Delta(1232) \to e \pi N$ process at large momentum transfer with the aim of a precision study of the ratios of electric quadrupole (E2) and Coulomb quadrupole (C2) to the…
We utilize non-perturbative and fully relativistic methods to calculate the\thinspace \thinspace $\Delta N\gamma $ electromagnetic transition amplitudes $G_{M}^{*}(q^{2})$ (related to the magnetic dipole moment $% M_{1^{+}}^{3/2}(q^{2})$),…
The study of the $\gamma^* N\rightarrow \Delta$ reaction presents the best quantitative method to explore the deviation of hadron shapes from spherical symmetry (nonspherical amplitudes). Significant non-spherical electric (E2) and Coulomb…
We show that recent experiment data for the ratios $E_{1^+}/M_{1^+}$ and $S_{1^+}/M_{1^+}$ can be explained in a dynamical model for electromagnetic production of pions, together with a simple scaling assumption for the bare $\gamma^* N…
Recent experiment indicates that the behavior exhibited by the ratios $E_{1^+}/M_{1^+}$ and $S_{1^+}/M_{1^+}$ of the $\gamma^* N \leftrightarrow \Delta$ transition remain small and negative for $Q^2 \le 4.0 GeV^2$. It implies that the…
We calculate the ratios E2/M1 and C2/M1 for the electroproduction of the $\Delta$(1232) in the region of photon virtuality $0<-q^2<1$ GeV$^2$. The magnetic dipole amplitude M1 is also presented. The theory used is the chiral quark-soliton…
Pion electroproduction amplitudes predicted by three theoretical models in the $Q^2 \leq 0.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$ region are compared. The objective is to facilitate the analyses of the data from new experiments on investigating the pion cloud…
We perform a relativistic chiral effective-field theory calculation of the pion electroproduction off the nucleon ($e^- N \to e^- N \pi$) in the Delta(1232)-resonance region. After fixing the three low-energy constants, corresponding to the…
We reply to the Comment of A.M. Sandorfi et al. [nucl-th/9707028] on the E2/M1 ratio from the Mainz photoproduction data, nucl-th/9707028 v2. We support our published result for the E2/M1 ratio of REM = -(2.5 +- 0.2 +- 0.2)%.
The C2/M1 ratio of the electromagnetic N->Delta(1232) transition, which is important for determining the geometric shape of the nucleon, is shown to be related to the neutron elastic form factor ratio G_C^n/G_M^n. The proposed relation…
The electromagnetic $N-\Delta(1232)$ transition amplitudes are calculated using the point-form of relativistic quantum mechanics. The relativistic effects incorporated in the electromagnetic matrix elements give a good description of the…
Tagged linearly polarized photons have been used at the Mainz Microtron MAMI for simultaneous measurements of the p(\vec{\gamma},p)\pi^0 and p(\vec{\gamma},\pi^+)n reaction channels to study the \gamma N \to \Delta(1232) transition. The…
We calculate the electric quadrupole to magnetic dipole transition ratio $E2/M1$ for the reaction $\gamma N \ra \Delta(1232)$ in the chiral quark soliton model. The calculated $E2/M1$ ratio is in a good agreement with the very new…
This work evaluates the model dependence of the electric and Coulomb quadrupole amplitudes (E2, C2) in the predominantly M1 (magnetic dipole-quark spin flip) gamma* N -> Delta transition. Both the model-to-model dependence and the intrinsic…
A recent analysis of pion photo-production multipoles using p(g,pi0) data from Mainz is repeated, successively adding constraints from other observables and varying the number of fitted partial waves. The original analysis is shown to have…
We examine the large-$N_c$ relations which express the electromagnetic $N$-to-$\Delta$ transition quantities in terms of the electromagnetic properties of the nucleon. These relations are based on the known large-$N_c$ relation between the…